Michael Hudson https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Why This Is Not the 1970s Again When Allies Become Assets The Dollar’s Last Line of Defence When Control Becomes the Imperial Trap Wars Are Won by Economics, Not Armies The Oil Shock That Could Break the Global Financial System Hormuz Is Leverage Strait Power America Wanted Submission, China Offered Parity The Bubble Beneath the Empire Geopathology and the Econopathology Behind it How the Federal Reserve Learned to Love Bubbles How Creditors Replaced Colonial Rule BRICS Doesn’t Need a New Bancor An Economy of Unearned Wealth The Dollar’s Self-Expulsion When the Empire Becomes the Risk The Bases Became the Targets Gold Returns as Trust in US Debt Fades The Global Squeeze Inflation First, Deflation Next Bankrupting the Wrong Economy How Slave States Blocked America’s Industrial Credit System Iran’s Resilience, America’s Miscalculation America’s War on an Independent World Wall Street’s Exit Plan Is You Iran Broke the Spell The K-Shaped Collapse of the US Economy The Swap-Line Empire Global Shakedown Wall Street’s Two Wings The End of Stable Energy When Control Means Disruption The Crisis Finance Capitalism Can’t Escape The Limits of Empire The Oil Grab Doctrine From Oil Control to System Risk Swap Lines, Gulf Debt and the Unravelling of Dollar Primacy The Return of Guns and Butter as War Spending Surges The Petrodollar Trap Is Becoming a War Trap The War America Cannot Admit It Lost The Ponzi Economy Is Breaking The System That Cannot Admit Failure The Desperate Defense of Dollar Empire The Blockade Bluff Did Xi Really Trade Iran for Taiwan? Trump’s Economic Waterloo The Dollar Trap Is Breaking The Last Colonial Wars How Iran Turned Oil Into the Empire’s Weak Point